Sentence examples for both a work of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Walsh wrote a letter to city officials that termed Mr. Butler's cabin "both a work of art and precious evidence -- for the Westside all too rare -- of the cultural history of Los Angeles in the 20's".

A shrewd film star is both a work of art and its curator.

Like every invention, SweeTango is both a work of individual genius and a product of its times.

But "Tristes Tropiques" is nonetheless that rarest of artifacts: a book that manages to be both a work of scholarship and a work of art.

Silver's commercial is an advertisement for a cell-phone camera and the processor that it runs on, and it's both a work of great originality and a startling new direction for the filmmaker.

At 224 feet long, about two-thirds the length of a football field, this tapestry is both a work of art and a historical document that mingles text and image.

Designed by the New Orleans architect Albert C. Ledner, it is significant both as a work of architecture and as a repository of cultural memory.

But the novel is "startlingly perceptive and ardent, both as a work of fiction and as a representation of the kind of thinking that poetry readers do," David Orr said in the Book Review.

It is both breathtaking as a work of art and miraculous as a delicate object that has survived for 1,100 years.

The Toy Tower has been both lauded as a work of unpolished genius and dismissed as an unsightly extravagance, but after a while it became accepted as an unofficial local landmark.

The procession, both a public spectacle and a work of art, is the creation of Francis Alys, an artist born in Antwerp, Belgium, who lives in Mexico City.